Biography
Summary
Congressman Ed Case was born and
raised on the Island of Hawaii. He attended Hilo public
schools, and graduated from Hawaii Preparatory Academy in
Kamuela, Williams College in Massachusetts, and Hastings
Law School in San Francisco. Before law school, he worked
for three years in Congress for Congressman and Senator
Spark Matsunaga. After law school,
he was law clerk to Hawaii Supreme Court Chief Justice
William Richardson, and then worked for twenty years as
associate, partner and managing partner of the Carlsmith
Ball law firm in Honolulu. He served eight years in the
Hawaii State House of Representatives from 1994 to 2002,
including two years as majority leader. He was first
elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in November
2002, and currently serves on the House Budget,
Agriculture and Small Business Committees. He is 53 years
old, and is married to the former Audrey Nakamura. They
have four children ages 22 to 15, and live in Kaneohe.
Extended
Congressman Ed Case was born and
raised in Hilo, Hawaii on
September 27, 1952. He is the fourth
generation of his family in Hawai'i.
He attended Waiakea-Kai and Keaukaha
Elementary
Schools in Hilo and graduated in 1970 from Hawaii
Preparatory Academy in Kamuela, Hawai'i.
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Congressman Ed Case was
born
and raised
in Hilo on
the Island of
Hawaii. |
Case
majored in
psychology and
graduated in 1975 with a Bachelor of Arts from Williams
College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. After graduation,
Case went to Washington, D.C. and worked three years
(1975-1978) for Spark Matsunaga, who was then one of
Hawaiis U.S. Representatives
and Senators.
Following
his Washington experience, Congressman
Case earned his Juris
Doctor from the University
of California/Hastings College of Law in San Francisco in
1981. Returning to Hawai'i, he served
as law clerk to Hawai'i Supreme Court Chief Justice
William Richardson. He went on to work for
twenty years as
an
associate, partner, and managing
partner with the law firm of Carlsmith Ball in
Honolulu.
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Congressman Ed Case
once worked as a "jackeroo" on
a sheep /
cattle ranch. |
His
career as an elected public servant
began with his service on the Manoa Neighborhood
Board in Honolulu from1985 to 1989,
including two years as chair. In 1994, he was
elected as a
State Representative to Hawaiis legislature.
He
served four two-year terms until November 2002,
including service as House Majority Leader from 1999-2000.
Congressman
Case was elected to
represent the Second Congressional
District in a special
election on November 30, 2002 to complete the remainder of
the late Congresswoman Patsy Takemoto
Minks term of office. On January 4, 2003, he won a second
special election to fill the full, two-year term left
vacant by Congresswoman Mink.
Congressman Case was re-elected
to the 109th Congress, his second full term, in November
2004.
In the
U.S. House, he is a member of the
Committee on Budget,
Committee on
Agriculture, and
Committee on Small
Business.
Congressman
Case is married to the former Audrey Nakamura. They
have four children, and live in Kane'ohe, Hawai'i.
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